mmtasi-32443 This movie illustrates God's way of bringing faith-filled believers in Christ together in relationship. It is true, God's ways of bringing a couple together work and those ways are higher than our ways. I know true believing people who were obedient to The Lord and were brought together by God in unique and exquisite ways only our Creator can do.

mountainfamily I appreciate the message of this film. It's counter cultural, it's radical and most "worldlings" will say, "It can't be done!" Read the Gospels, the same things were being thought and said when Jesus was teaching the people.The message is not wrong, it's just very difficult to hear in this day and age when everywhere you go the message is that you are to try a bunch of people out until you meet "the one." That is, until they annoy you or get in your way, and then you divorce them and find another "the one." Serial dating trains for serial monogamy, multiple marriages and divorces.The movie also didn't do a very good job in showing how a young girl could be raised and interact with others her age to eventually meet the man she would marry. It should have shown her at church and at friend's houses (with parent's present) and other things for young people and families: picnics, bowling, hiking, amusement parks ... all the stuff that kids can and should do ... just not pairing off alone like people do today.Then it could have shown how over a reasonable amount of time, the girl and boy got to know each other, went to church together, talked about their faith and then it would be more natural to lead to the point of him asking her father for her hand in marriage.However, the acting is awful. The writing is painfully bad at times. But, I think the costumes and hair were extremely accurate as the story takes place in the mid/late 1980's and early 1990's. Believe me, I was there, and I am stunned that this film was made in 1998! The filmmakers must have raided a thrift store filled to the rafters with stuff from the 80's.I realize these actors are all amateurs. However, we have more and more films being made by decidedly Christian writers and directors and actors. Can't we have more education in the area of acting and writing and directing? Isn't there a school that doesn't compromise moral values while at the same time teaching what needs to be learned here to the modern day audience? We've all spent thousands of hours watching movies and have become quite expert in discerning quality versus junk.We need better than this! It's right to realize that films can be a great evangelizing tool. God Bless

kristin02 i can't believe a movie like this even exists. I mean i am a 19 year old Christian and i do believe that kids/teens should be taught the value of having high morals, but this movie doesn't make any sense! why does it portray kissing/dating as a bad thing when that's part of a teenager's life? Plus, it's ridiculous that it made it seem like it was all worth it when the girl( the main character) got married. I mean just because you don't date others before you get married does NOT guarantee you a happy fairytale marriage! plus, i would rather date and get to know a lot of people before i choose to settle down with one person. That way i would feel like i made the right choice. So parents, don't expect this to teach your kids about purity. It will make them want to rebel! plus if you notice, throughout her whole teenage life, it was shown how sad and bored she felt to waste her young life!

bkoganbing As is usual with these kind of films the production values are not quite the standard of a major studio and that has to be taken into consideration when reviewing these film. The cast is pretty amateurish, but attractive. The lead, Serena Orrego, gives a good account of herself though all things considered, could have a future in mainstream films.The message of abstinence is a given with Christian media and I wouldn't even argue the viewpoint, only that one should realize that in this complex world of our's not everyone will opt for that. We have to be ready to deal with those that don't choose abstinence.But young Pamela is not allowed to even date. She quite properly asks the question, how is she ever going to meet her intended if she never does go out?The ending I won't reveal, but to say it's a Pollyannaish ending is to put it mildly.